Glass cutting machine



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GLASS CUTTING MACHINE Filed Oct. 5, 1937 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 FIG. 4.

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PatentedFeb.Z0,1940 i 2,190,641

5 UNITED STATES'f [FATENT OFFICE GLASS CUTTING MACHINE George W. Burroughs, Ridgewood, N. Y. f Application October 5, 1937, Serial No. 167,343 .1. 7 Claims. :(Cl..33- 28) p This invention relates to new and useful im-. f Figure 2 is a top plan view of the machine, i

provements in glass cutting vmachines, and more Figure'3 is a View infront elevation,

particularly it pertains to a machine for cutting Figure 4 is a "vertical sectional view on an 7 optical lenses. I enlarged scale, the View being taken substan- 5 'One object of the present invention is to tially on theline 4-4 of Figure 2, 19 v 5. improve the construction and mode of opera- Figure 5 is a horizontal sectional View taken tion of machines for cutting optical lenses and s ntia ly n the e -5 1 Figure to provide such machines with mechanism which Figure 6 is a detail sectional view illustrating will elfect a better cutting operation than prior 1 e mounting of the k, 1 1 5 table, l0 machines. Figure '7 is a detail sectional view taken sub- A feature of the invention resides in a novel e t y 0 e1 o Figure mechanism for adjusting a. cutting element in F gure 8 isa distend perspective e Of h such amannerthat thecutting element engages mounting me anism of th Gutter element, i

the work to be operated upon in a positionnor- Figure 9 'is a detail sectional view taken sub-' 15, mal to the surface thereof. y l stantially' on, the line 99 of Figureb; and,

Afurther feature of the invention resides in gure 10 is a detail sectional view taken sub v a 7 novel cutting element adjusting mechanism ntially on the line Illm ofFigtire 5.

which will permit of adjustment of the cutting The machine Consists of a base 5 and element to a position normal withurespect to beet i t d in Figure 4 0f d w syl the u of t k/ voperated upun hollow standard l6 rises'from the base and has 20 whether said surface be, flat, concaved or convex. its p W extended forwardly as at W and still a further feature of' the inventionrewa dly s t 9 to p a ll w arin sides in a novel means for attaching and mountj al 3- I pr ferl o uct the Standing the cutter element upon the part by which am N5- of a separate element and secure it to it is carried. ,the'base by bolts or screws 2|, although the in Machines 01 the af re-menfigned type gen- Vention is 110$ to be limited t0 the specific COII- erally are equipped with a pattern which is en- Strllcfion illustrated-H i f ed by a pattern follower and thereby deter- The reference numeral 22 designates the work mines the path of movement of the cutter over supporting platform bl s best ustrat 3O the surface being operated upon, and a further ev-4 Of the r w s, the Work Supporting feature of this invention resides in anew and. rm O D e a m y P 11 23 novel m n fo securing retaining th tfrom which projects areduced extension 24 for tern in operative position. reception within the upper end of the journal Still a further feature ofthe invention resides bearing the reduced portion 23 forming in a novel construction of pattern follower for Shoulder 25 Which rests upon the pp e d .3

determining the path of movement of the cutf the journal 20. i ting element over the surface of the'work being The Q Supporting p o has an enoperated upon, l larged portion 39, recessed as at 3i upon its top Other features of the invention relate to cerface andsecured Within h recess of the Work tain novel and improved constructions, arrange- Supporting platform table y eans of 40 ments and combinations of parts hereinafter Screws 34, there is a ring-like member 35 which I described and particularly pointed out in the s an annular Seat 37 for the c pti n of a claims, the advantages of which will be readily Work supporting element s k upunderstood and appreciated by those sinn d i porting element is formed from suitable cushionth art, ing material, of which rubber is one very good 45 The invention will be clearlyunderstood from p d n o d o adapt e ach ne for th accompanying drawings illustrating t operation upon lenses of various cross sectional Ventionin its preferred form and the following. form, the cushion element is provided with an detailed description of the constructions therein ar. angular face of Wall Q i 5o; shown. The reference numeral 40 designates a lens 5 In the drawings: centering pin, and this pin projects slightly above Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating a the bottom of therecess 4|, disposed centrally machine constructed in accordance with, the of the work supporting platform or table. The 3 present invention, the manner of operation of pin 40 is maintained in its extended position by said machine being illustrated in said figure, means of a coil spring 42, which is compressed 55 there is a screw 58, the inner end of which enbetween the upper end of the extension 43 of a spindle 3d and a flange 45 formed on said pin. The lower end of the spindle M is provided with an enlarged head M5 formed with a shoulder 41 for engaging the lower end of the journal 2!]. Extending transversely through the body portion 2 of the work supporting platform or table,

gages the spindle M to secure the work supporting platform or table to the spindle and to secure both the work supporting platform or table and the spindle and its enlarged head 46 in operative position in the journal 2!). Extending from the lower end of the enlarged head 45 there is a hollow threaded member 49, and extending transversely thereof there is a cross pin 5E8. Supported by the cross pin 5?! there is a resilient member 5! having free ends 52 and threaded upon the member 49 there is a sleeve 53 projecting from the lower end of which there are pins 54. The reference numeral 55 designates a pattern plate, and this pattern plate has openings for the reception of the pins 54, and a central opening 56 for the reception of the looped resilient member 5!. In attaching the pattern plate 55 in operative position, as shown in Figure 4, the free ends 52 thereof are inserted in the central opening 56 of the pattern plate, whereupon the plate is elevated, compressing the resilient member which, after its enlarged portions 5'! pass through the central opening 56 of the pattern plate 55, expands, and

through its resiliency retains the pattern plate 55 in position upon the sleeve53 and the lower end of the extension 49.

Means is provided to rotate the work supporting platform or table and the pattern plate. This means is preferably manually operated and comprises a beveled gear 58 mounted on the spindle Ml. Meshing with the beveled gear 58 there is a beveled gear 59, see Figure 6, carried by a shaft 5'3 which extends through the journal 25 in a direction at right angles to the extension H of the standard It. The shaft 60 has a crank handle Si by which it may be rotated, and upon rotation of the shaft, rotary movementwill be imparted both to the work supporting platform or table and the pattern plate 55.

The reference numeral 65 designates a cutter head and constitutes the means by which a cutting tool adapted for engagement with a piece of work mounted upon the Work supporting platform or table may be. moved into engagement with the work and may be adjusted relative thereto in order that the cutting tool or element may assume a position normal to the surface of the work being operated upon. This normal position of the tool relative to the surface operated upon may be identified more clearly by stating that in the cutting of glass a better operation is obtained if the'tool engages the work at right I angles to the plane of the surface thereof, and

inasmuch as the present machine is adapted for operation upon articles in which that surface which the cutting element engages may be either plain, concaved, or convexed, it is important that an adjustment which will permit of the tool assuming a position normal to the surface operated upon be provided.

This cutter head comprises a main body portion it from which extends a spindle 61 mounted in a journal or bearing 63 in the hollow standard I 6. The main body portion 55 of the cutter head is provided with a journal. or bearing 69, and this journal or bearing receives a spindle I projecting from a member II upon which the cutter arm I2 is pivotally mounted. Extending from the member II there is an arm I3 which carries a spring pressed latch I 3 adapted to engage in one of a plurality of recesses I formed in a segmental member I6 which extends upwardly from the main body portion 65 of the cutter head. By this construction it will be apparent that upon releasing the spring pressed latch M, the spindle I'D may be rotated in the bearing 69 to adjust the cutter arm to any angle desired after which the spring pressed latch is released to engagement with the ring-like member 35 to retain the cutter arm 72 in its adjusted position. By this arrangement of parts the cutter arm may be so adjusted that when'it is moved about its pivotal point to cause engagement of the cutter with the work on the work supporting platform or table, the cutting element will engage said work in a position normalto the surface thereof. The cutter arm is pivotally mounted in the member II as at 80 and is provided with a manually operated lever M by which it is rocked about its pivotal point to cause the cutter carried thereby to operatively engage a piece of work on the work supporting platform or table. Aspring 52 tends normally to move the cutter arm in a direction away from the work when the manually operated lever BI is released and the spring maintains the cutter arm normally in an elevated position so that the cutting tool will be spaced with respect to the work supporting platform or table, a distance sufiicient topermit of free access thereto in the placement and removal of the Work to be operated upon.

The cutting arm is provided on its free end with a bearing 93, and as best illustrated in Figures 7 and 8, a sleeve 94 is'mounted in said bearing.

Mounted within the sleeve 94 there is a spindle 95,

flattened portion 95 of the spindle 95 to limit the rotary movement thereof in the sleeve or bushing 94.

The spindle 95 has an enlarged head Iflil, and extending inwardly of the spindle there is a recess IUI which receives the legs I52 of a looped resilient cutter element carrier I03. The cutter element. is in the form of a cutting Wheel E04 which is adapted for mounting upon a shaft Hi5 which is received in the notches I06 of the cutter element carrier I03. Depending from the enlarged head I58 of the spindle 95, there is a forked member IN, and this forked member is adapted to receive the cutter element carrier I63, the resilient legs I92 thereof being inserted between the legs of the forked member IE1 and upwardly into the recess IOI, as illustrated in Figure 7. The ends of the shaft I05 position themselves in notches H8 in the legs of the tern plate 55 by a coil spring I56.

i 55; A pivoted latching lever in various shapes in accordance with the shape of the pattern plate employed. To accomplish this result the cutter element must be moved transverselyof the work supporting table as the work is being rotated beneath the cutting element." This transverse movement of the cutting element is obtainedin the following manner.

The reference nun'ieral H5 designates an arm which is secured to the spindle 57 by means of a set screw or the like H5. The free end of this arm is off-set as'at lil and'mounted therein there is'a pattern follower H The specific construction of this pattern follower is more clearly illustrated in Figure 10 and will, by reference to said figure, be seen to comprise an eX- ternally and internally threaded sleeve H 5; The external thread ofthe sleeve i is is threaded into a recess or threaded passage iii! in the off-set portion ill of the arm H5. The reference numeral lZi designates a threaded shaft having threaded engagement with the internal thread of thesleeve H9 and the pattern follower H8, heretofore referred to, is in the form of any extension projecting from the free end of the threaded shaft Hit. Means is provided to rotate the shaft i2i, andthis means comprises an operatingknob E22 secured to a reduced ezrtension H23 of the shaft lit by means of a set screw orthe like iii. The operating knob carries a conical extension 625 which is secured thereto by a set screw I25 and the angular face till of this conical member 525 may be provided with suitable calibration to determine the adjustment of the pattern follower lit with respect to the arm H5. By rotation of the knob ill, the shaft i2! is rotated in the threaded sleeve H9 to project or retract the pattern follower H8 with respect to the arm H5, depending upon the direction of rotation of the said shaft ml.

The pattern follower H8 is maintained in engagement with the peripheral edge of the pat- One endof this spring is connected to a housing l5! as at $52, theother end being connected to the pivoted arm H5 as at l53.' This spring i5li tends to pull the lever I l5 in a direction which causes the pattern follower M3 to engage the pattern plate 555 is provided with a hooked portion I55 which engages the lever H5, see Figure 9, to maintain the lever in that position in which it is shown in Figure 5 and in whichposition the pattern follower HE is out of engagement with the peripheral edge of the pattern plate 55.

the edge of the pattern plate; This construction insures the proper engagement of the pattern follower with the pattern plate and prevents undue wear of the peripheral edge of the pattern plate in a defined line and thus obviates inaccuracies as a result of wear of the peripheral edge of the pattern plate.

The reference numeral iGil designates a clamping means for securing the work to be operated upon upon the work supporting platform or table. This clampingmemberis carried by anarm Nil having an operating nut 52, the arm being mounted upon a shaft I63 which is rotatably A lens to be shaped is placed uponthe work'supporting platform and secured in engagement therewith by the clamping ordinary manner.

in a position normal .to the surface thereof, and

pressed pin M with the proper recess 35, depending upon the type of the surface ofthe work to be operated upon. After this adjustment has. been made, the manually operated lever Si is depressed, moving the cutter arm 72 about its piv-, otal point 83 and causing the cutter element to engage the work on the work supporting platform. r 1 With the parts in this position, the crank 61 is rotated, and through the medium of the beveled gears 58 and 59,.both the work support ing platform and the pattern plate will be rotated. During rotation of the work supporting platform and the pattern plate, pressure is ap plied to the manually operated lever 9i to main- After the cutting operation has been completed the applied pressure to the manually operated lever 9| is released and the spring 92 functions to move the cutter arm 12 to the elevated posi this is accomplished by engagement. of; thefspring tion in which it is shown in Figure 4. Atthis time the pivoted arm I! 5 is moved to a point where the latch lever I54 will engage it and hold it in a position against the tension of the spring I50 in which the pattern follower will be spaced from the pattern plate, as illustrated in Figure 5.

' The size of the lens cut is determined by the adjustment of the pattern follower with respect to the pivoted arm! l5, and this is accomplished by a turning of the operating knob I22 of the shaft I21. For example, if the operating knob I22 is rotated to advance the shaft 521 in Figure 10, then the lens will be of a larger size than would be the case if the shaft iZl were retracted and by reason of the calibrations and themicrometer adjustment of the shaft l2l, a highlyeccurate adjustment of the pattern follower may be obtained.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the'present invention provides a new and novel machine for cutting glass and particularly for shaping optical lenses which (is simple in construction and highly efficient in operation. Furthermore, the presentmachine provides for accurate positioning of the cutting tool in a position normal to the surface. of the work being operated upon, and furthermore, such adjustment may be positively made before the cutting operation is started.

In the present application, the machine is embodied in its preferred form but itis to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the specific constructions herein illustrated and that it may be carried out in other forms which rightfully fallwithinthe scope. of

the appended claims.

claimed as new, is:

1. In a machine of the class described, in combination, a rotating pattern, a pivoted arm, and

a'pattern follower carried by said pivoted arm, said pattern follower comprising a threaded shaft, an internally and externally threaded sleeve threaded on said threaded shaft and an operating member carried by the threaded shaft for rotating it within the threaded sleeve.

2. In a machine of the class described, in combination, a rotating pattern, a pivoted arm, and a pattern follower carried by said pivoted arm, said pattern follower comprising an externally and internally threaded sleeve having threaded engagement with said pivoted arm, a threaded shaft having threaded engagement with said sleeve and movable therethrough upon rotation of thethreaded shaft, means for rotating said threaded shaft, and a vpattern engaging projection extending from the free end of said threaded shaft.

3. In a machine of the class described, in combination, a rotating pattern, a pivoted arm, and a pattern follower carried by said pivoted arm, said pattern follower comprising an externally and internally threaded sleeve having threaded engagement with said pivoted arm, a threaded shaft having threaded engagement with said sleeve and movable therethrough upon rotation of the threaded shaft, means for rotating said threaded shaft, and a pattern engaging projection extending from the free end of said threaded shaft, said pattern engaging projection being smaller than the width of the peripheral edge of the pattern.

4. In a glass cutting machine of the class described, a base, a work supporting table carried by the base, a cutter head pivotally mounted on the base, a segment extending vertically from the cutter head, an adjustable cutter arm supporting member pivotally mounted in the cutter head, a cutter arm pivotally mountedin the cutter arm supporting member, a rigid arm extending upwardly from said cutter arm supporting member in parallelism to the face of said segment and means carried by said rigid arm for engagement with said segment for securing the cutter arm supporting member in an adjusted position relative to the cutter head about its pivotal mounting thereon and relative to the work supporting table.

5. In a glass cutting machine of the class described, a base, a work supporting table carried by the base, a cutter head pivotally mounted on the base, a segment extending vertically from the cutter head, an adjustable cutter arm supporting member pivotally mounted in the cutter head and movable about a horizontal axis therein, a cutter arm pivotally mounted in the cutter arm support and movable about a horizontal axis disposed at right angles to the axis of the cutter arm supporting member, and means carried by the cutter arm supporting member for engagement with the segment to hold the cutter arm supporting member in its adjusted position relative to the cutter head about its pivotal mounting thereon and relative to the work supporting table.

6. In a glass cutting machine of the class described, a base, a hollow standard extending vertically from the base, a cutter head, a spindle extending from the cutter head and into the hollow standard and providing a vertical pivot for the cutter head, a horizontally extending bearing in the cutter head, an adjustable cutter 7 arm supporting member pivotally mounted in said horizontally extending bearing, means for securing said cutter arm supporting member in its adjusted positions relative to the cutter head about its pivotal mounting thereon and relative to the work supporting table, and a cutter arm carried by the cutter arm supporting member and pivotally mounted about a horizontal axis extending at right angles to the axis of the pivotal mounting of the cutter arm supporting member.

7. In a glass cutting machine of the character described in combination, a base, a hollow standard extending vertically from said base, an extension projecting from the vertical standard, a work supporting table rotatably mounted in the free end of said extension, a cutter head pivotally mounted in said standard, an adjustable cutter arm supporting member pivotally and adjustably mounted in the cutter head, for adjusting a cutter arm carried thereby relatively to the supporting surface of the work supporting table, means for securing the cutter arm supporting member in its adjusted positions relative to the cutter head about its pivotal mounting thereon and relative to the work supporting table, and a cutter arm freely pivoted in the cutter arm supporting member for movement into and out of operative relation with respect to the work supporting table.

GEORGE W. BURROUGHS. 

